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Originally posted by Not Bob
Dude, it was your hypo. You said we couldn't arrest him even though he was a member of a terrorist organization. Now that I showed you the very statute that shows that mere membership in a terrorist organization is a crime, you are changing the hypo to talk about how difficult it is to prove the crime. Fine, but that is a different issue.
(I would note that if we have enough evidence to think that he is a member of AQ, then we have enough that we can arrest him for it. And check to see if he cheated on his taxes, overstayed his visa, or tore the tag off of his mattress.)
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"membership" is an oversimplification. Of course, we would know he is associated with it somehow. I don't see membership or association as coming under the statute (and just so you know, I would never have posted on this at all if I hadn't read the statute first, so no one showed me anything).
Does it matter if the acts were all on foreign soil? A guy is here working at a store. We know he went to an Afghan training camp. can he be charged under the statute.
